Description

Archibald MacPherson, 1906. 2-storey, 3-bay Freestyle villa. Squared and snecked sandstone with long and short surrounds. Swept overhanging eaves; bargeboards; half-timbering to gables.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay at right, with canted mullioned and transomed window with parapet at ground; tripartite window to 1st floor above; recessed panelled entrance door with small bipartite window at left to single storey porch with parapet, stepped and raised at centre, to re-entrant angle; mullioned and transomed bipartite window to bay to left at ground; bipartite window to bays above with swept-roofed gabled dormers; piend-roofed single storey addition to rear of E (side) elevation; canted bay with bipartite window above to W (side) elevation, with later addition towards rear.

Small-paned timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; tall, banded stack between left-hand and central bay; banded wallhead stacks to E (side) elevation; squat cylindrical cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped squared and snecked sandstone boundary walls with railings to lowered sections.

Statement of Interest

Wester Coates Garden was a final phase in the development of the Wester Coates estate by Heriot's Trust. The villa development had begun in the 1850s, under the supervision of Alexander Black. Other surveyors responsible for the area were John Chesser and Donald A Gow. The houses in the area are representative of the stylistic changes that occurred over the 50 years that the area was developed.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77778230

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)